Population statistics of protein structures: lessons from structural classifications.
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Structural classifications aid the interpretation of proteins by describing degrees of structural and evolutionary relatedness. They have also recently revealed strikingly skewed distributions at all levels; for example, a small number of folds are far more common than others, and just a few superfamilies are known to have diverged widely. The classifications also provide an indication of the total number of superfamilies in nature.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current opinion in structural biology
دوره 7 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997